Pokerstars Gear Up For SCOOP
Online poker room PokerStars are getting ready for the return of the Spring Championship of Online Poker (SCOOP) this week, with the 38 event tournament series due to begin this weekend.
The first event will take place on Sunday 2nd May and will be based on a 6-max No Limit Hold’em tournament.
The tournament series offers a wide variety of tournaments for members to try their hand at and with the wide variety of buy in costs that the site has set, almost every real money player will be able to get a slice of the action.
Unlike a number of other larger online poker tournament series, SCOOP will offer tournament play for variants that seem to have been forgotten by other online poker rooms, Badugi been the main variant that isn’t widely available anywhere else.
The series will be headlined by a 2 day main event which will offer players a number of levels of buy in, ranging from $109 right up to $10,300.
Tournaments on are never a small thing and with the site occupying the title of being the biggest online poker room in the world, it’s no surprise to anyone to see these tournaments filling up rapidly.
Bryan Slick who works for PokerStars commented on the hype that have been created as the series draws closer:
“The amount of competition available is just incredible and this year’s SCOOP schedule should provide at least a little bit of something interesting for all players no matter what game they prefer or at what stakes level they’re most comfortable.
In terms of buzz, of course the high-stakes main event is generating a lot of excitement due to its five million dollar guarantee and the fact that we’re guaranteeing one million dollars to the tournament champion. Someone’s life is going to change at the conclusion of that event and others and that’s really exciting.”
Full Tilt Poker Runs 3 FTOPS Tournaments Today
With possibly the biggest tournament series available on Full Tilt Poker in full flow at the moment and thousands of players rushing to the online poker room to get a slice of the action, many will be excited to know that today, Friday 30th April, you can get your complete tournament fulfillment within the Full Tilt Poker FTOPS.
Once again the online poker room has seen an influx of players heading to the site to try to win a share of $15.1 million up for grabs and today will be no different.
Today will see Full Tilt Poker stage not one, not two but three of their FTOPS tournaments all within the same day, giving players the opportunity to really get into the tournament swing of things.
Today’s tournament events are lining up like this:
- Event #22 – 14:00 ET $200 + $16 NL Hold ‘em 6max – $400,000 Guaranteed
- Event #23 – 18:00 ET $500 + $35 NL Hold ‘em 4xShootout – $350,000 Guaranteed
- Event #24 – 21:00 ET $300 + $22 Razz – $150,000 Guaranteed
The line up of the three FTOPS tournaments for today will see players trying to win a share of a possible $900,000 in guaranteed prize pools.
Liberty Poker Club Shuts Down
The Liberty Poker Club has been shut down due to the club operating outside of the law and with that been agreed, the clubs owners will now have to stand in front of a judge to battle to have the club reopened.
The legal hearing will take place tomorrow and the owners are expected to want to ask the judge to allow the club to reopen once again, this time with strict guidelines that the club will follow in order to be in line with the law.
Another company that has been affected by the Liberty Poker Club’s closure is Club Infiniti which opened within the Liberty Multiplex but since the poker club was instructed to close, the doors have also been closed on Club Infiniti after the owners of Infiniti agreed to close the venue until this matter had been sorted out within a court room.
Local police said that there was an ongoing investigation into the Liberty Poker Club and should Club Infiniti have continued to be in operation, there was a possibility that they too would face criminal charges.
PokerStars Adds Sites to Portfolio
Online poker brand PokerStars have purchased three of the biggest and most popular poker blogs on the internet it has been revealed.
News that the worlds biggest online poker room bought:
PokerPages.com – Seen within the online community as the first place to stop for all of your poker news, strategy and education for a number of years. The site then stopped operation in late 2009 but with the sites reputation firmly set within the mind of the online poker community, PokerStars saw it as a great opportunity to revitalise the site and get the name back into circulation.
PlayWinningPoker.com – This could well be one of the best known poker strategy sites on the internet and with the hard work and dedication that was put into the site to get it to the top of the search engine results, offering high traffic volumes.
Poker-Babes.com – Offering a number of interviews, insights and out of the norm content, this site has proven to be a great read for a wide range of poker players who are looking for a little bit more than the conventional portals offer.
One thing that will be clear to all those who are thinking about the sales of the sites…. The former owners will be experiencing an intense financial boost.
ECOOP Season VI Returns to Titan Poker
French owned Titan Poker is about to welcome Europe’s richest online poker tournament back into their tournament schedule.
The tournament is returning to the site for its sixth season and the past five seasons that have proven to be very popular with online poker players.
This season will boast a total of $5,100,000 in guaranteed prize pools and the tournament is set to run between May 24th and June 6th 2010.
The series of tournaments will kick off with a No Limit Hold’em Freezeout tournament that offers a guaranteed prize pool of $250,000 and with that tournament setting the pace for the remainder of the tournaments to follow, the main event which will be played June 6th 2010 will offer a huge $1.5 million guaranteed prize pool.
Titan know that players are going to be flocking to the site in order to get their names into the players field before places fill up but with so many players expected to want to tune up their tournament play before the real thing, Titan have announced that they will be holding a miniature version of the tournament that will offer affordable tournament action to all players who want to get into the mood.
The mini ECOOP VI tournaments will take place between May 14th and May 23rd 2010.
If you want to get involved in the European Championship of Online Poker 6, Titan have announced that they will be running regular satellites that will run through the day, offering you the chance to get entry into some of the bigger tournaments set to appear in the ECOOP VI for a fraction of the price.
